The sea bed in this last shot seems to contain a huge amount of broken coral fragments
Saturday, 3 September 2011
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The first photo is of Dahlia Anemone and the last appears to be Cerianthus Iloydii, not sure of the middle one. The broken fragments are the dead broken remains of 'maerl' formed from the calcareous seaweed Lithothamnia.
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